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- Sep 2024
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- Dan Allosso Book Club 2024-09-28
- Mark Twain
- white supremacy
- Rudyard Kipling
- empire
- jingoism
- power over
- manifest destiny
- Boxer Rebellion
- colonialism
- Spanish-American War
- Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria
- mission of civilisation
- William McKinley
- Benjamin Tillman
- imperialism
- The White Man's Burden
- Henry Labouchère
- white power
- Philippine-American War
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I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Not only do words infect, ergotise, narcotise, and paralyse, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain, very much as madder mixed with a stag’s food at the Zoo colours the growth of the animal’s antlers.
[...] words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.<br/> —Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) in "Surgeons and the Soul" address at the annual dinner of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, February 14, 1923.
See Also
- publication of address in book form: https://librarysearch.williams.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay/01WIL_ALMA2192324460002786/01WIL_SPECIAL
- cross-reference: Cliffsnotes
- Review of speech/dinner: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1707037/
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